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If you were nominated, would you wanna be a knight Sir??

― Gale, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes.

― jel --, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

― anthony, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i would like to be knighted, but what is with the dumb rule (i think) that only boys can be knighted?!?!

― geeta, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why can't I be queened?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm going to defer to perry to make the joke

― geeta, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think the joke made itself.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hurrah!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes, I want to be knighted. As soon as possible. For anything.

What I’d really, really like of course is a hereditary peerage, but a knighthood would satisfy me for a year or two. I’m still young (in geological terms). And my achievements are not yet obvious to the naked eye.

Geeta – no, a woman can’t be knighted, but a man can’t be made a Dame, which is the equivalent. Though there does seem to be an injustice here: if I’m knighted, my wife (if any) gets a title too, but if you’re made a Dame your husband (if any) gets nothing. Hmmph.

― Rex, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd rather become a Lord because I think Lord Ward sounds funny, where as Sir James Ward doesn't.

― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just want Rex to be knighted.

― Lynskey, Thursday, 13 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Would I have to give up my baronetcy?

― Gordon, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sir Ptee has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

― Nicole, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nice of you to say, but I am already a Baran. Of the subset of mis- spelt nobility also including Eerls, Damns and Cuntesses.

― Pete, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thank you, Ptee.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No, I'd refuse - but I'd be very pleased to be in the position of rejecting such a thing, and if I were able, I'd do it ostentatiously, I expect. I think it's far off: in the school I was at, I was the first student ever (in 300 years of the school) to stay on after A levels to take the Oxbridge entrance and not be offered a prefectship. Yes, I'd have refused that, too, but they weren't mad enough to offer it.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You'll always be Lord Crisps of Leicester to me Martin.

Personally I would wait until Ivor Cutler and Derek Bailey have got their knighthoods.

― Andrew L, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would piss in the queens mouth and then yell Anarchy Forever.

― anthony, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'd send it back as a protest against 'cold turkey' not making the top 10.

― unknown or illegal user, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

no, i wouldn't want to be knighted or damed.

― queenoftheharpies, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three years pass...

The insistent Sir Kingsley lays it down

Pompous pedantry or a justifiable reflection of one's status? Does it depend solely on your views re the Monarchy? If you were given a title would you want it to be recognised and used at all times?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 20 February 2006 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Dude, if I got a title I'd never use anything else. And throw gauntlets in the faces of anyone who refused. Some things should be done properly.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Monday, 20 February 2006 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Some things shouldn't be done.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 20 February 2006 15:21 (twenty years ago)

It would depend on the title. 'Sir' or 'Lord' are a bit pedestrian. It's "Master of Space and Time" for me or nothing.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 20 February 2006 15:22 (twenty years ago)

What would be interesting is for someone much younger than him to be insisting on their title being used in print. Seems like a big generational thing (assuming the proportion of staunch monarchists has dwindled signifcantly in the last 30 years).

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 20 February 2006 15:24 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

Ray Davies
Ken Dodd

― Mark G, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:51 (nine years ago)

... Andy Murray

All of them now officially cunts.

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 30 December 2016 22:53 (nine years ago)

Title = Shit

― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 December 2016 22:54 (nine years ago)

Professor Phil Scraton though, scholar and gentleman - and worth thousand of them cunts.

― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:55 (nine years ago)

Lynn Faulds Wood

― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Friday, 30 December 2016 22:56 (nine years ago)

Surprised Laura & Jason Kenny didn't get them. It's a weird old system.

Fair fucks to Phil Scraton though: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hillsborough-campaigner-professor-phil-scraton-rejects-new-years-honour_uk_58661b78e4b00768ddd00a0e?utm_hp_ref=uk-news

xpost

― ailsa, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:56 (nine years ago)

who knew i'd ever get to write God Bless Lynn Faulds Wood?

― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 December 2016 23:06 (nine years ago)

Lynn's on 5 live right now explaining her decision. respect.

― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2016 23:07 (nine years ago)

Not sure about her revamp opinion tho, just burn the whole rotten system down imo

― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2016 23:10 (nine years ago)

obv

― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 December 2016 23:17 (nine years ago)

For every L S Lowry or Vanessa Redgrave there are other people who have turned them down as well:

In a statement a spokeswoman for Weller said: “Paul was surprised and flattered, but it wasn’t really for him.”

― calzino, Friday, 30 December 2016 23:32 (nine years ago)

https://ksassets.timeincuk.net/wp/uploads/sites/55/2011/11/RogerDaltreyPA251111-630x420.jpg

― conrad, Friday, 30 December 2016 23:54 (nine years ago)

I like it that a brilliant autism spectrum w/c genius type like Faraday turned down honours in the 19th century, against the full psychotic pomp of peak English empire arrogance.

― calzino, Saturday, 31 December 2016 00:44 (nine years ago)

"He was devout member of the Sandemanians, a Protestant sect with particularly strict beliefs. Those beliefs may well have included a refusal to recognise worldly titles."

another shit religion, but correct about worldly titles.

― calzino, Saturday, 31 December 2016 01:00 (nine years ago)

titles will provide a handy checklist for the initial purification squads come the revolution

― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 December 2016 10:02 (nine years ago)

Telegraph today:

If ever one man deserved an honour for special services to the country, it's Nigel Farage.

― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 31 December 2016 13:53 (nine years ago)

I have it on good authority that the Queen said "Fuck Right Off with that one!"

― Mark G, Saturday, 31 December 2016 19:31 (nine years ago)

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